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Fifthly, And the forementioned Father thinks that the similitude of § 5 the Fountain, and of the Ocean, do not fully express the fullness of ⟨image 69⟩God: For, if you take but one drop from the Ocean, there is that drop less in the Ocean, than there had been, if it had not been taken thence; and therefore we add this last Head: That the fullness of Goodness, Grace, Holiness, and all other Divine Perfections that are in him are not only inexhaustible, but undiminishable: For after all the derivations of Grace from the God of Grace, he remains full, and not only so, but as he expresses it, [Greek or Hebrew], Not at all lessened by those communications: Nor need we puzzle our selves with this matter, for our Derivations from God are not essential, but influential; the Soul partakes not of the Divine Nature, materially, but by way of efficiency. Believers are [Greek or Hebrew], Partakers of the Divine Nature, 2 Pet. 1.4. Not by substance, but resemblance; for we must hold this as a sixth Principle, that the Divine Nature, essentially considered, is not discerptible, nor divisible, and therefore not communicable.

Fifthly, And the forementioned Father thinks that the similitude of § 5 the Fountain, and of the Ocean, do not fully express the fulness of ⟨image 69⟩God: For, if you take but one drop from the Ocean, there is that drop less in the Ocean, than there had been, if it had not been taken thence; and therefore we add this last Head: That the fulness of Goodness, Grace, Holiness, and all other Divine Perfections that are in him are not only inexhaustible, but undiminishable: For after all the derivations of Grace from the God of Grace, he remains full, and not only so, but as he expresses it, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Not at all lessened by those communications: Nor need we puzzle our selves with this matter, for our Derivations from God are not essential, but influential; the Soul partakes not of the Divine Nature, materially, but by way of efficiency. Believers are 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Partakers of the Divine Nature,